How recommendation engines are taking part in our daily routine and how companies as Netflix and Amazon implement it?

This talk aims to show the elements that compound a recommendation engine to people who have never been in touch with the matter or want to know a bit more. At the end of this session, you might be able to reproduce your own recommendation system and also know where to find more about it.

Talk structure:

1. What is and why use a recommendation engine?

2. Recommendation engine importance

3. Steps of a recommendation

4. Recommendation algorithms

5. Basic Statistics for distance and correlation

6. Example